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«The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
| Keywords:
advertising copy, debase, debased, debases, debasing, disgraced, gobble, Gobbles, mind-bending, persuasion, primacy, psyche, pulp, washing
«Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
| About:
Progress
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charter, chartered, charters, The Gap, The Powers That Be, unwritten
«The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
| Keywords:
abstraction, Another Country, Beautiful Country, bottles, coca, Coca Cola, cola, desirable, does not exist, embarrassing, grubby, pamphlet, pamphlets, smells, tourist
«The facts are always less than what really happened.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
«There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
«Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.»
«She filled her house with blacks, and white parsons who went around preaching Jesus was a revolutionary, and then when the police walked in she was surprised»
«Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
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Art
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dictum, heretical, on the side, oppressed, oppressors, shudder, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, simplistic
«Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.»
«The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.»
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